| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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| 1 | 3 | $60,991,505 | +580.9% | 54.5% | 5 | The Mummy | $55,724,285 | 91.4% | 1 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 2 | 1 | $20,632,703 | -37.4% | 18.5% | 3 | Entrapment | $15,856,280 | 76.9% | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 3 | 2 | $10,927,193 | -33.6% | 9.8% | 6 | The Matrix | $7,966,209 | 72.9% | 7 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 4 | 7 | $5,273,808 | +183.9% | 4.7% | 3 | Election | $4,214,268 | 79.9% | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 5 | 5 | $4,256,907 | -6.9% | 3.8% | 8 | Life Is Beautiful | $1,077,260 | 25.3% | 29 | Miramax | - |
| 6 | 4 | $2,190,720 | -53.6% | 2% | 6 | Idle Hands | $937,258 | 42.8% | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 7 | 9 | $1,990,463 | +44.2% | 1.8% | 3 | Cookie's Fortune | $1,115,765 | 56.1% | 6 | October Films | - |
| 8 | 6 | $1,912,582 | -36.2% | 1.7% | 5 | 10 Things I Hate About You | $1,404,419 | 73.4% | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 9 | 8 | $1,171,096 | -33% | 1% | 3 | Forces of Nature | $764,035 | 65.2% | 8 | DreamWorks Distribution | - |
| 10 | 10 | $587,073 | -42% | 0.5% | 3 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $434,261 | 74% | 29 | IMAX | - |
| 11 | 11 | $345,609 | -49% | 0.3% | 1 | Foolish | $345,609 | 100% | 5 | Artisan Entertainment | - |
| 12 | 12 | $344,158 | -32.9% | 0.3% | 4 | The Winslow Boy | $164,833 | 47.9% | 2 | Sony Pictures Classics | - |
| 13 | 13 | $330,600 | +14.7% | 0.3% | 1 | Everest | $330,600 | 100% | 62 | MacGillivray Freeman Films | - |
| 14 | 14 | $160,314 | -25.8% | 0.1% | 1 | Hideous Kinky | $160,314 | 100% | 4 | - | - |
| 15 | 17 | $153,402 | -11.3% | 0.1% | 1 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | $153,402 | 100% | 10 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - |
| 16 | 15 | $148,928 | -23.1% | 0.1% | 2 | The Rage: Carrie 2 | $88,011 | 59.1% | 9 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 17 | 19 | $111,491 | +6.3% | <0.1% | 1 | Waking Ned Devine | $111,491 | 100% | 25 | - | - |
| 18 | 18 | $89,101 | -28.7% | <0.1% | 1 | Blast from the Past | $89,101 | 100% | 13 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 20 | 20 | $72,426 | -9.1% | <0.1% | 1 | Get Real | $72,426 | 100% | 2 | Paramount Classics | - |
